Wednesday, October 7, 2009
GBSA on twitter!
Official Launch Date: October 7, 2009
G. Bruce Stratton Architects is now on twitter!
Now you can follow us on both our blog and on twitter!
Just follow the link below and start tweetin' . . .
Labels: news, twitter, website
Monday, March 23, 2009
Hotel on Queen
Labels: architects, news
Monday, March 16, 2009
Congratulations!!
Jenny is a ma Frank is a pops.
Adrian Jacob Wang, born March 14 2009
Looking forward to the cigars...!!
Labels: news, staff photos
Monday, March 2, 2009
Just When You Thought You Were Different
GBSA staff member due this month......
Top baby boy names by internet search.....
1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Joshua
4. Matthew
5. Andrew
6. Christopher
7. Joseph
8. Daniel
9. Nicholas
10. Ethan
11. William
12. Anthony
13. Ryan
14. David
15. Tyler
16. John
17. Alexander
18. James
19. Brandon
20. Zachary
or if you want to keep them guessing......
Jordan
Riley
Alexis
Angel
Jayden
Peyton
Hayden
Avery
Taylor
Cameron
Payton
Dakota
Morgan
Logan
Ryan
Reese
Jaiden
Skyler
Skylar
Ariel
Kayden
Parker
Kendall
Addison
Dylan
Top baby boy names by internet search.....
1. Jacob
2. Michael
3. Joshua
4. Matthew
5. Andrew
6. Christopher
7. Joseph
8. Daniel
9. Nicholas
10. Ethan
11. William
12. Anthony
13. Ryan
14. David
15. Tyler
16. John
17. Alexander
18. James
19. Brandon
20. Zachary
or if you want to keep them guessing......
Jordan
Riley
Alexis
Angel
Jayden
Peyton
Hayden
Avery
Taylor
Cameron
Payton
Dakota
Morgan
Logan
Ryan
Reese
Jaiden
Skyler
Skylar
Ariel
Kayden
Parker
Kendall
Addison
Dylan
Labels: news
Friday, February 13, 2009
Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Building Burns Down
Before:
After:
Perhaps the Chinese people who disliked the building due to the lack of Chinese culture that was included in terms of its design was maybe why they burned down Rem's building with fireworks.
Labels: news
Monday, January 19, 2009
TTC Does Not Cut It
The TTC did not make this list of the best transit systems. Why is a Vaughn expansion proposed? Museum station wha....?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
And now for something completely different.....
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Best Poutine in Montreal and a Great Photo Capturing it's Qualities
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Front Pad Parking
People paving part of their front yards to park their car. Today's Globe and Mail presents the parking at home crisis in the more dense neighbourhoods and the environmental impact. The has been a desire to pave part of the front yard to park a car. All I can say is you won't have that problem in the suburbs of Mississauga or Brampton. One thing I loved about my back lane urban Vancouver home was the simple planning for the vehicle and it's missing from the front yard. Perhaps we need to drive smaller cars?
Labels: news
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Blanchett as Dylan in I'm Not There
Monday, January 5, 2009
Industrial Design by Black and Decker 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year
Monday, December 15, 2008
GBSA Architect Sapphira Explores Dance
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Gehry and The AGO
The underside of the wooden atrium stair.
The glass entrance wall and it's wood support along with the wood soffit.Friday, December 5, 2008
The Globe and Mail Newspaper
Today in the news section(the photo above..please a little more).....in the Real Estate section an expensive Dog House.......wtf?
Labels: news
Monday, December 1, 2008
Facades and Toronto Architecture
A recent article in the Toronto Star about preserving facades in the city. The photo above is of a GBSA project a few years back. The school facade was preserved. At first I did not know what to think of it. As it was in my neighbourhood, I soon saw it's merit. It became a meeting place for kids in the neighbourhood. It also served as a marker to the community and gateway to the park. The residents now had a historic monument to the past. If you ever drove down Foch Avenue your vista would end at this facade. A tribute to the urban planning of the past. Overall, in this example the preservation of the facade was good design.
Labels: news
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Architecture of Video Games
Gears of War 2 on the Xbox offers some very imaginative looks at futuristic and complex architecture and machinery. Perhaps the inspiration for future designers or at least a release.
Labels: news
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
AGO Preview
Did a member's preview of the Gehry renovation....
Monday, November 3, 2008
Colio Estate Winery and Riverview Cellars
The site plan of the winery will be voted on by council today. The winery is less than half of the size of Jackson Triggs or Pillitteri. It incorporates several green technologies like a green roof and a lagoon to treat process wastewater. One of the key decisions is a trivial setback distance from an adjacent estate winery. The current neighbours(also an estate winery-Riverview Cellars) whose home is a couple of feet from the property line do not wish to share this priveledge(even though the new proposed setback is significantly larger). It seems more about 'I' was here first so now you have to follow my rules even though we are in the same game. Where did all the good neighbours go?
Labels: news
Monday, October 6, 2008
Nuit Blanche Weekend
The Liberty Village portion of Nuit Blanche was great. It was the only one time allowed for a visit. (cell phone photos oops)
Labels: news
Thursday, October 2, 2008
G Bruce Stratton Architects Published in Canadian Interiors
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Canadian_Interiors_OIS002.pdf
Canadian_Interiors_OIS003.pdf
Canadian_Interiors_OIS004.pdf
Canadian_Interiors_OIS005.pdf
Labels: news, OCC, office interior
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
WaveDeck- Viewed It
Monday, September 22, 2008
The WaveDeck- I missed it.
I ride my bike past here weekly and did not notice the new urban landscape which photographs well! The wooden structure is a change to the concrete walls of Queens Quay. We will test it out in the next few days.
Labels: landscape design, news
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Working for the Man: China and Architecture
A good article on architects and the moral dilemma they may face when accepting work from regimes who's human rights issues are in question.
Labels: architects, news
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Walking Tour Downtown Toronto
The other day we took a brief walking tour around the University of Toronto to look at various design items in new buildings.
Labels: architects, news
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
New Ceramic Lighting
Some great lights found at the Gardiner Museum and soon to be in a GBSA project....
Labels: industrial design, news
Monday, July 28, 2008
Colio Niagara Winery Ministry Certificate
It has taken several months but we now have the Environmental certificate required to produce the quantity of wine desired on the Niagara site. The next step will be another town meeting to review the design.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Gehry in England
LONDON.- The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2008, which gives England the first built project by legendary architect Frank Gehry, opens on 20 July (until 19 October). The spectacular structure – designed and engineered in collaboration with Arup – is anchored by four massive steel columns and is comprised of large timber planks and a complex network of overlapping glass planes that create a dramatic, multi-dimensional space. Gehry and his team took inspiration for this year’s Pavilion from a fascinating variety of sources including the elaborate wooden catapults designed by Leonardo da Vinci as well as the striped walls of summer beach huts. Part-amphitheatre, part-promenade, these seemingly random elements make a transformative place for reflection and relaxation by day, and discussion and performance by night.
compliments of artdaily.org
Labels: architects, news
Monday, July 14, 2008
655 Bay Final Pieces
Friday, July 11, 2008
College St Upheaval.....
Rarely do things come up which make you say I have seen that before. How many times have we seen a modernist design sprout on our character streets? We will maintain the context by putting a store on the ground floor. After that, a perch for one. Gone are the tight apartments you see to the left and right. What then happens to the people who crowd the streets during the day and night? Density? forget it. In this case the house design is fine but what does it really do to the street and neighbourhood it soo longs to be in? We really need to investigate density in our neighbourhoods and look at cities like Montreal to see how we maintain our character streets through design. Funny thing is the article in today's globe and mail calls it "luxurious digs in a blue collar context" sort of like a foreman's office in a factory.
Labels: globe and mail architecture, news
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Shape-Shifting Skyscraper in Dubai
Artist rendering released by Dynamic Architecture shows a
rotating skyscraper that is to be built in Dubai. Click here for details.
Designed by Italian architect David Fisher, this energy-efficient rotating skyscraper generates electricity via wind turbines built on every floor and is set to be completed in 2010. The Italian-made pre-fab parts allow for reduced costs of up to 10%, as well as shorter construction times (1 floor per week).
Estimated Cost: $700 Million US
Video: "Moving" Building Set for Dubai (Reuters UK)
Labels: architects, news, urban planning
Monday, June 23, 2008
New TTC Platforms and Subway Advertising
So, much has been said about the recent renovations at Museum Station. This morning I took note of all the advertising on the walls of the St.George platform. The next station was Museum. There were no adds on the walls at the platform train level. Is this the new design intent? Will the cash strapped TTC dump advertising on the newly designed stations? Or are they just waiting for the next Jurassic Park to be released?
Labels: news, subway stations, ttc
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Happy Birthday Bruce!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Modern Times
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Bay Offices Have Tile!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
New York City Skyscraper
People walk past artist Chris Burden's 65-foot tall skyscraper sculpture, constructed out of toy parts, in the plaza at Rockefeller Center, in New York, June 10, 2008
thanks to yahoo and reuters
thanks to yahoo and reuters
Labels: news
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
In Bloom
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A Project Changing Seasons or Owners
Monday, June 2, 2008
Toronto's Billboarditis
Today's Globe and Mail has an interesting article about the city billboards.
The building in the background is actually the building our office is in.
It is great to read that someone is doing something about this mass media overload.
Labels: news
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
from the Archives-Beaches Library Model
From the Archives- Proposal Cover
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